Shopify stores are now able to edit their robots.txt file, which gives owners more control over how search engines crawl their site. Tobi Lutke, Shopify CEO, broke the news this evening on Twitter ...

Columnist Glenn Gabe shares his troubleshooting process for identifying issues with robots.txt that led to a long, slow drop in traffic over time. I’ve written many times in the past about how ...

Bing announced an enhanced Robots.txt tester tool. The tool fills an important need because getting a robots.txt wrong can result in unexpected SEO outcomes. Producing a perfect robots.txt file is ...

I have run into an interesting robots.txt situation several times over the years that can be tricky for site owners to figure out. After surfacing the problem, and discussing how to tackle the issue ...

John Mueller from Google said in a Stack Exchange thread that although it is good practice to make a dynamically driven XML sitemap file, it is not good practice to make a dynamically driven ...

Do you use a CDN for some or all of your website and you want to manage just one robots.txt file, instead of both the CDN's robots.txt file and your main site's robots.txt file? Gary Illyes from ...

A website is a good way to promote your small business, as well as showcase your products and unique qualifications. If you manage a large website, you likely use a few subdomains and each subdomain ...

Ed Foudil, a web developer and security researcher, has submitted a draft to the IETF — Internet Engineering Task Force — seeking the standardization of security.txt, a file that webmasters can host ...

Google is releasing robots.txt to the open-source community in the hopes that the system will, one day, becoming a stable internet standard. On Monday, the tech giant outlined the move to make the ...